If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry is pretty well entrenched in the Republican Party and that's one of the things that we need to phase out.

If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.

If I had to predict, the way things are going, I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me.

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.